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Pakn Treger
Spring 2006 / 5766 (Number 50)
FEATURES
Keeping Current in Amsterdam by Hilde Pach
(715 KB)
No money, few readers: in 17th-century Amsterdam, publishing a Yiddish newspaper was a risky business.
From the Shtetl to South Beach
by Jerome Liebling
A photographic essay recalls one of America’s vanished Jewish communities.
Between Midnight and 6 a.m.
by Justin Cammy and Rachel Rubinstein.
How two determined zamlers shipped six tons of Yiddish books from Mexico City to Amherst, MA.
An Embarrassment of Riches by Zachary M. Baker
(545 KB)
A distinguished bibliographer chooses 1,000 definitive Yiddish titles.
TRANSLATION
Everyday Jews by Yehoshue Perle, translated by Maier Deshell and Margaret Birstein.
(1759 KB)
Introduction by David G. Roskies. The New Yiddish Library offers a coming-of-age novel from pre-war Poland.
DEPARTMENTS
- From the Editor
- A Bintl Brief
- Calendar of Events
- From Our Collection: Alter Kacyzne by Robert Adler Peckerar
- Outwitting History: The 25th Anniversary Campaign for the National Yiddish Book Center
- Baym Tsenter: News from the National Yiddish Book Center
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